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11th March 1909, Page 12
11th March 1909
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

There are unquestionable signs ail -round of business stirring : the tire !manufacturers are the first to notice it, and I gathered, in a conversation with Mr. Fritz Poppe and his trusty lieutenant, Mr. Julian A. Halford (who was fresh back from the North), that they had sold 600 solid tires during 'last week. I was asked to glance at one order for 300, and the remainder was made up of several smaller ones. I noticed the second of these gentlemen very energetic at Manchester, and

prepared to talk tires until all hours of the night. This activity at the Polack headquarters is a good augury for a general improvement of trade.

In giving the names of the motor notabilities at the official opening of the Manchester Show, I unwittingly gave the name of Mr. Ilindmarsh as representing " Shell " Spirit, instead of Mr, John Cates. Both these gentlemen are well known to me, and both are in the supply department : I " mixed the children up," and I sincerely hope no domestic complications have ensued.

The inclement weather is responsible for laying temporarily low some hard workers in the industry; Mr. H. C. B. Underdown, Chairman of Commercial Cars, Ltd., is temporarily hors de combat. Mr. A. W. Torkington, of Torkington tires, has been away, and, although back at work, he is by no means right. His company has now moved into excellent premises at 4, Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road, W., and is making fine progress; another tire representative is indisposed • Mr. F. j. J. Glynn, of the Prodwodnik.

A personal friend of mine, who is specially interested in the pleasure-car side of the industry, is just as precise in his. pronunciation as he is ornate and copious in his selection of expressions; it is, in fact, the pride and joy of his intimates to hear him " let himself go." If the subject should be abstruse, or if he has heard of it for the first timeno matter. He is ready with his opinion, and is prepared with reforms too. But I am digressing. It is what appears to me an oddity of pronunciation that concerns me for the moment. NViienever our hero deigns to refer to the side of the motor movement which interests me most, he calls it with all seriousness the heavy vayicle. Now, this is a word I blunder along with many times a day, pronouncing it as it is spelt, and, if the above is the real 19oe way of giving it titteranoe, I should like to put myself right. It will be gathered that I hold my punctilious friend in considerable awe, and I hardly like to suggest that in this instance he has been tempted to give the word his own special rendering, in order to distinguish himself from his fellows, I met Mr. R. Bockemithl one day last week. He told me he had not been to the Manchester Show for a very solid reason; unhappily, he did not possess the qualifications of Sir Boyle Roche's bird, but was only capable of disporting his burly form in one place at a time, and during the show week he was taking a trip through Yorkshire in the interests of Peter Union tires. Amongst other strokes of business, he received an order from the North-Eastern Railway Company.

A friend of whom I saw a good deal recently up North is Mr. Elyard Brown, of C. A. Vandervell and Co., the motor ignition specialists. These people are coming very much to the fore now, with accumulators and magnetos. There are three practical men at the head of affairs in the C.A.V. firm — Vandervell, Elyard Brown, and Arthur Goodwin. I have been closely associated with all of them, in Motor Reliability Trials, on Motor Club committees, and the like, and it is no wonder to me that they have found out ignition requirements and are kept busy.

I hear that the London General Omnibus Company has placed a good order for lathes, for motor-repair work, with Drummond Bros., Ltd., of Guildford, and when recently calling on Acer, Ltd., at Hanweil, Mr, Craig, with whom I had a most interesting talk, told me they had recently purchased a Drummond lathe. • Acer, Ltd., is doing motor-repair work of all descriptions, and is making a tractor for agricultural and haulage purposes. It was hoped to have this ready for the War Office trials, but at the last moment it had to be withdrawn, as was explained in our report of last week, much to Mr. Craig's disappointment.


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